CURRENT MISSION

“Wish for nothing larger
than your own small heart
Or greater than a star”
Alice Walker

ABOUT ME

I am introverted but I love meeting new people and forging real connections. I love art and poetry, adventures, spontaneity, Muay Thai, night swims, painting and talking philosophy.

There’s something beautiful about everyone I meet and I especially enjoy meeting people who are sensitive and gentle to the world around them, which seems rare. c’mon tender warriors.

PHILOSOPHY

"The beauty of the world, which is so soon to perish, has two edges, one of laughter, one of anguish, cutting the heart asunder. "
Virginia Woolf

" I am the keeper of fragile things and I have kept of you what is indissoluble."
Anaïs Nin

“Even broken in spirit as he is, no one can feel more deeply than he does the beauties of nature. The starry sky, the sea, and every sight afforded by these wonderful regions, seems still to have the power of elevating his soul from earth.
Such a man has a double existence: he may suffer misery, and be overwhelmed by disappointments; yet, when he has retired into himself, he will be like a celestial spirit that has a halo around him, within whose circle no grief or folly ventures."
Mary Shelley

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

I want to meet strange new people...

Interests

Reading, Muay Thai, music, movies, larches, ferns, the desert, wine in the morning, ballet, old cemeteries, Idaho, Austin, Aix, libraries and old disorganized book stores, ghost stories, poetry, caves, fireflies, white sand, sea glass, daffodils, yellow roses, sunflowers, skydiving, lily of the valley, rose gardens, capture the flag, Painting, Nintendo 64, Star Fox, barrel rolls ;) single engine planes, snorkeling, humidity, golden hour, thunderstorms, camping, mushrooms, cicadas, the smell of orange and vanilla.

Music, Movies, and Books

Music that makes me feel: Sharon Van etten, The Shivers, Ryan Adams, Jeff Buckley, Sufjan Stevens, Interpol, Phil Elverum, Laura Marling, Johnny Flynn, Bruce Springsteen, Radical Face, Cocorosie, Keaton Henson, future islands, Billie Holiday, Phoebe Bridgers, Nina Simone, Magnetic Fields, Yowler, The National, lightning dust, Elvis depressedly, lady lamb, Kishi Bashi, Elliott Smith, Cat power,Built to Spill, the mountain goats, Etta James, Tiny vipers, Spencer Krug, Woelv, Lana del ray, mount eerie, the microphones, Conor oberst, the Thermals !)

I like to read: Virginia Woolf (waves is the most beautiful book you will ever read), Shakespeare ...Hamlet, Othello, Much ado about nothing, Diary of a young girl, The Bell Jar, A Lover's Discourse, e.e. Cummings, Anne sexton, Kazuo Ishiguro, Murikami, Katherine Dunn, Margaret Atwood, Sharon olds, Maggie Nelson (especially Bluets)The Confession by Tolstoy, The Reader, The Abhorsen trilogy, The Glass castle, Educated, white oleander, Ambrose Bierce, Neil Gaiman.... Let's talk about books we love :)

Movies that I remember: Ponette, Harold and Maude, my neighbor Totoro, Dean Spanley, Hallam Foe, Withnail and I, Princess Mononoke, Ponyo, The Ballad of Jack and Rose

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

Watching a sunset in Brazil on an empty beach with my brother

When I was 19 I became a licensed skydiver. I’ll never forget my first solo skydive from 13,000 feet... nothing was more life affirming at the time.

Teach, Learn, Share

I enjoy spending time with people who value empathy, kindness, and creativity. People who search for meaning and actively work to make the world a better place, in their own small way.

Countries I’ve Visited

Brazil, Canada, England, France, Germany, Italy, Mexico, Monaco, Spain

Countries I’ve Lived In

France, United States